I was a unique case of homeschooling because I was homeschooled through 8th grade then went made the decision to go try high school because I was worried I might be stupid compared to other kids who I knew through sports, clubs, community, etc… My parents made it clear that it was my decision to make, so I made it.

Turns out I was not, in fact, stupid relative to the other kids… I was able to skip through math classes in high school and graduated valedictorian while being a three-sport athlete all four years. I discovered that public school is absurdly easy, because everything caters to the lowest common denominator. The focus was on time spent (in your desk, doing homework, etc) vs deliverables. Put another way, it was an “hourly” mentality instead of a “salary” mentality.

That said, I had some really great science and math teachers in high school that I am still very grateful for. They were also the type of teachers who thought administrative mandates were bullshit and just wanted to focus on teaching.

Things I liked most about being homeschooled:
- I finished all my work in 2-3 hours in the morning and spent the rest of the day outside — I was outside constantly.
- I was done when I was done. There was no “homework” because it was all at home.
- I could do my work from anywhere, or work ahead a few days bitcoin if needed. There were no arbitrary constraints.
- It taught me to work on deliverables.
- I read a shitload.
- I was never uncomfortable around “adults.” They were just bigger people to me. I showed everyone respect, but I was perfectly comfortable and happy hanging out with adults even as the only kid (plus my sister).
- I got to do a bunch of random shit because I my schoolwork itself took very little time.

On the subject of random shit, one of my favorite memories is when my mom set me up with a legit blacksmith to apprentice for a day. He’s the first person who taught me about Fibonacci. Seriously brilliant and badass dude. Made a huge impression on me and I will never forget it.

I also just played in the woods constantly. Started fires, built forts, used knives and axes and guns from a young age.

In terms of things I disliked, the only real thing was the worry that I was not going to be as smart as my peers at public school. Benchmarking was hard. It’s the whole reason I decided to go to high school, only to find out that a lot of people are complete morons, with zero initiative, drive, or grit.

I also spend a day a week at a Montessori school for a year or two. That was neat. Zero “schoolwork” was done. We just built shit and cooked shit and played outside.

My parents also helped found a small charter school (about 10 kids). We would get together once a week and had a couple tutors who came in. I had an awesome Mennonite algebra tutor named Edith. We got on swell.

Anyway, highly recommend homeschooling, and will be doing it with our kid(s). There are infinitely more online resources available now than there were when my parents did it.


Love to see quality homeschooling examples. My parents "homeschooled" us but constantly disagreed on how to do it.

My Dad was in favor of forced study time, hourly based instead of results based. Often books were assigned that we were not ready for with no rewards if we succeeded at doing above and beyond our work, and punishments if we didn't do enough.

My Mom believed in unschooling where you allow the child complete control over how long, how much, what, and when they study.

They conflicted on this and would take turns who would "win" at controlling the way we studied. The result? Learning was a source of constant stress.

If my Mom won we just wouldn't study because we were anxious about studying as a result of my Dad's heavy hand. Then my Dad would point out that my Mom's method wasn't working so we needed to be forced to learn.

Then we never studied to my Dad's satisfaction, even when he was in charge, and as punishment we got the Internet cut off (I would read How Stuff Works and similar sites which he never considered real studying), and the cable cut off even though I mainly watched History channel, Discovery channel etc, but to him "I was just watching TV all day".

My parents were also hoarders with a roach infestation, they were always falling for MLMs, my Dad was a heavy duty conspiracy theorist. Fun times. 🌚🫠

I do believe in real homeschooling like you experienced though, and it is what I plan to do with my kids when I ultimately have them myself.

Similar to you I felt worried that my education was sub par compared to most people who went to public school, so I went to community college in my late 20s. Ended up graduating with honors, so I guess I'm not an idiot compared to most people after all.

Maybe one day there will be a Bitcoin homeschooling community and all our kids will get the best of socialization and self motivated education. I would like to help create that community when the time comes if it hasn't been created already. Until then, I'll stay humble and stack sats to be able to pay for it!

💪🖖❤


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Thank you everyone for doing your part fighting spam on nostr


LMAO


December 12th 2024


#1 is inevitable.

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I’m writing this because I keep getting asked to comment on Saylor/Saif video even though my position hasn’t changed.

The natural state of the free market is deflation which means all prices fall forever in Bitcoin (assuming it stays decentralized and secure)

Free market economies are more productive meaning faster deflation (or real wealth gains by falling prices)

That system is incompatible with an inflationary monetary system meaning one of those systems must fail.

Either:

1) A system based on truth, hope, and abundance for all 8 billion people on the planet driven by a free market economy and all prices fall relative to bitcoin forever. This means Bitcoin is used as a medium of exchange and freedom tech spreads to the world through lightning, Liquid, Fedimint, Cashu, etc.

OR

2) A control system. An extractive rent seeking system that is NOT the free market (similar to the one we have had for 5000 years that resets every 100 or so years through war) continues to centralize by having you believe price of bitcoin is going up in fiat which makes the surveillance state stronger. This eventually centralizes Bitcoin - custodians, media, regulation (funded from the same manipulation of money) where it is attacked from layer 2. (Similar to gold)

While these ideas may “seem” compatible in the short term because you want Bitcoin to go up in fiat. What it really means is that you are giving your energy and strength to the system centralizing the world by converting Bitcoin to Fiat….to then measure prices.

Quite simply - If Bitcoin is only a store of value, it fails as a store of value.

Ps - It won’t fail. #1 is inevitable in time because too many (and more each day) have seen behind the curtain and are determined to build path #1.

Many of you here - the people that inspire me every day.  You make a difference with every word, thought and action.
Almost did that in all caps per nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx because it’s so important.

Referring to # 1 above…..There is no second best.


Indeed. #HardMoney enables #prosperity, #EasyMoney drives societal #collapse.

For 700 years the #RomanRepublic lasted under a sound monetary system, but only about a century after transitioning into the Empire stage Rome began debasing its currency. It was the begining of the end.

Nero was the first, doing so to fund the rebuilding of Rome after the great fire (among other expenses). Despite this initial debasement the silver content of Roman denarius then remained relatively stable with 75 - 85% silver content under the leadership of the 5 good emperors. This marks the end of the period known as the #PaxRomana when Rome was at its peak.

Commodus began his reign in 180 CE, this marks the beginning of very tumultuous times for Rome. For the next 120 years Rome could no longer expand it's borders and fund the empire through conquests and, as silver mines alone were not able to keep up with the expenses of the empire, they began debasing their currency in earnest. During this period emperors were being assassinated so fast that more emperors passed through the throne than in the previous 250 years. Less than 100 years after Commodus took the throne, the silver content of the denarius had collapsed to 5%.

In the early 4th century Constantine the great's reintroduction of a hard money standard with the solidus made him very popular. This coin provided a strong foundation for the Eastern empire, which Constantine founded when he moved the capital to Constantinople.

But the damage had already been done, Roman government expenses were many and were difficult to afford. Rome began burdensome taxes which lead to riots and civil wars, further weakening the empire.

Western Rome, having used up it's national savings account through total debasement of it's primary currencies, was a shadow of it's former self by the mid 4th century and by the end of the 5th had completely collapsed.

If we are to prevent history from repeating itself, avoiding total global economic collapse which would see humanity go back to the dark ages, we have to move to a hard money standard.

This is why we Bitcoin, Bitcoin fixes the money and shifts our trajectory away from collapse and back towards prosperity. We CAN learn from #history, and by choosing Bitcoin we are responding to our current situation in order to avoid repeating it.

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"We can't entrust our primary communications network to a handful of corruptible humans. And now we don't have to."

I had the pleasure to work with Reason on this Nostr explainer video this summer

Happy to see it in the wild!

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Fair, I guess my point is that they will be drastically reduced as power grid energy sources. But they are great for airplane fuel for instance, they'll likely never go away entirely and that's okay.


GM. #Nostr!

Many people are in #Bitcoin for the gains, but think it's "looney" to think Bitcoin will become the dominant transactable form of value storage globally.

Frankly, you are really not seeing the endgame that Bitcoin is speeding towards if you don't realize exceeding something like the value of all Gold, and all FIAT, and the value of global #GDP, are all milestones that Bitcoin will certainly exceed among many others.

₿ has no #inflation, if you already consider that there are only 21,000,000 (and that they just get unlocked at a slowing rate over time) then there is no inflation at all. Unlocking new coins just reduces the value of the current coins closer to what they would be worth if all 21m were already unlocked.

Even if you consider the net inflation effect that ₿ currently experiences, it is less than what is experienced by anything else in #history that could be used as a form of asset #security and a #StoreOfValue for large groups of people. In 4 years that will be cut in half again, and again in 8, and so on.

Bitcoin will grow in value faster than everything else, because (among other reasons) it's supply grows slower than anything else.

Over the next 20+ years Bitcoin will exceed the value growth of:

#ART
#GOLD
#REALESTATE
#FIAT holding #S&P500 companies.
...
#EVERYTHING.

This makes owning anything that doesn't offer a return of more Bitcoin than you invested an opportunity cost, and practically eliminates the demand of everything above their utility values. This is going to be most beneficial as demand for homes drops, home prices will collapse and become affordable again for young families that need a homestead.

The only thing I expect to potentially grow faster, are companies that use it as their treasury reserve asset.

Bitcoin perfectly stores and secures our life energy within it, with no maintenance costs.

Bitcoin's mining network incentivizes huge investment into the most long term cost effective energy production, AKA #renewable green energy sources, globally. Goodbye fossil fuels polluting the air we breath. Hello world of abundant and effectively free #energy.

We're entering a transitionary period that will bring us to a future where humans won't need to work as much. Where consumption is sustainable. Where people will be able to afford to leave the work force sooner, enabling younger people to take their place, and use their stored life energy to fund their own business ideas. Bitcoin will cause an explosion of small businesses, and the retirement age will de facto drop even if it's not de jure.

The birthrate will increase as it becomes affordable to have children again. Stress levels will decrease, and our community bonds will increase as people have more free time to build relationships with the people around them instead of being stuck at work.

Bitcoin is misperceived as a get rich quick scheme where you're effectively gambling your money and practically guaranteed to lose it. But that's completely false. To me Bitcoin isn't about getting rich, it's about changing society for the better. Becoming financially free sooner than others is just one of the rewards for those who are the most patient and supportive of the new system.

I just hope that this transition occurs with as minimal global pain as possible. Though there will be some pain as the old system continues it's slow but accelerating collapse. But that's again where Bitcoin and bitcoiners will shine. We will all help the world in the transition and reduce the pain in doing so. All they have to do is learn that Bitcoin is not the melting ice cubes of FIAT currency, that it is safe and the best place to store their life energy, and they will benefit too.

But regardless of the short term negative effects we may or may not see, Bitcoin is a train that cannot be stopped. The discovery of decentralized, immutable, transactable, absolute scarcity is immense. In the long run it brings incomprehensible prosperity to society. Just as our world today is incompressible to someone living 500 years ago, so too will the world of 2124 be incomprehensible to someone living today.

I'm done being apathetic about the world's problems, waiting for other people to fix things they are financially rewarded for not fixing. When simply growing Bitcoin faster fixes the problems faster, and I will do everything I can to help it reach that point sooner rather than later. With Nostr being a significant part of that.

The more you save your earnings in Bitcoin, the more you ask to be paid in Bitcoin, the more you casually talk with confidence about Bitcoin, the faster this change will occur.

Bitcoin is #peace/#love/#freedom for all. They don't see it yet, but I can't wait for the day when they do.

Have a great day everyone.

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Yes there is, I hate it. 🫠 Hopefully we all figure out the best way to deal with it soon!


Yesterday I was a bit frustrated with all the spam accounts in my followers that I can't seem to remove from the list on primal, and primal and amethyst were both feeling extra slow so I wasted 4 hours on a combo of Reddit/YouTube yesterday. Fun, but what a waste! I need to prevent the doomscrolling more...


From a fellow home-birthed human, congrats! 😁 Pamper her for the next few weeks at least!


GM!


Beautiful.


💡
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1 ₿ = 1 ₿


FYI I'm getting impersonator accounts following me. I've got close to 10 now I think.  Tried reporting and muting in Primal but nothing happened.


Don't bother.

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This is not Jack. It's a fake account, check the follow count. Muted.


It's not about the moment, it's about the decade... adjust your time-preference and you'll sleep soundly 💤
#BTC  #Nostriches  #Plebs
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Wish I realized what it really meant to switch to proof of stake, would've got out a lot sooner and had more real cheese as a result. oh well.


#GM #Nostr!

Don't #stress. Not even about stacking sats.
Relax and enjoy the short time you're alive.

Whatever is making you stressed out, remember that it's temporary and will soon be forgotten (or at least not your primary focus anymore).

If the source of your stress is your career, don't be afraid to seriously look into a change to something less stressful, even if it means a pay cut although it doesn't have to. Reducing your expenses can really help reduce stress as well.

Time will pass, the world will change and so will you.

Tick Tock Next Block.


It's amazing that bitcoin exists, and that it continues to work. It's amazing that nostr exists, and that all the stuff that we only dreamed about a few short years ago is being built out before our eyes.

Zaps and splits and eCash and self-sovereign infrastructure and streaming sats and swarm highlights and zapraisers and marketplaces and secure chat and and and. And this is just the beginning. "It's as bad now as it will ever be."

Grateful to be part of it all.


Haven't played games in a while, but I would highly recommend:

The Last of Us (both parts, incredible gameplay and story)

Days gone (open world zombies done right!)

God of war (the whole series but especially the newer 2 games)

Horizon zero dawn (at least watch the YouTube compilation of the story, the story is fantastic)

Returnal (fantastic sci-fi shooter)

Age of empires 4 (RTS)


Such a great game.


😂

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Not a movie but the TV series For All Mankind is probably my favorite moon related media.


There are so many good movies it's extremely hard to choose, but I'd probably go with:

Guillermo Del Toro's Pinocchio
Puss in Boots: The Last Wish
Bicentennial Man
The Last Samurai
The Phantom of the Opera

Honorable mentions:

The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
Idiocracy
Office Space
Anne of Green Gables
Back to the Future
The Princess Bride
Django Unchained
Gladiator
Shutter Island

Various Star Trek Episodes which while technically not movies are incredible storytelling, including but not limited to:

Measure of a man
Who Watches the Watchers
The Inner Light

The Next Generation is the best series thanks largely to the great actor Patrick Stewart.


How to win friends and influence people.


😂 Great job!


Actual footage from his bathroom camera.


Thanks for the detailed response! I appreciate the effort that went into it. Have some Sats friend.


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The colors are off but you get the idea 🤪


How private are Nostr nests? Are they publicly broadcast or encrypted and only readable by chat participants?


Curious. If one has funds in cold storage and wants to increase their privacy, could you send your funds to lightning enabled CEX and withdraw it to a personal lightning wallet which then transfers back to cold storage?

Would this effectively turn your wallet into a Non-KYC wallet? They wouldn't be able to track the funds through lightning correct?


Books I intend to read because I've heard good things:

#GraduallyThenSuddenly
#PrinciplesOfEconomics
#FiatFood
#TheCreatureFromJekyllIsland


I'm 30k+ words into a book I'm writing on #Bitcoin, #energy, and #macroeconomics.  I've been a bit frustrated lately as I haven't written anything in months (summer road trip, apartment search and then #moving apartments), but last night I had a brain storm and wrote 1k+ words!

I have some symptoms of a mix of #ADHD and #ASD so I often find it difficult to finish large projects, but I believe I will finish this book before too long. Never written a #book before, feels good to create something lasting. ❤😊

In the meantime, what're your recommendations on good books to read?

I've read:

#ThePriceOfTomorrow by nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe
#TheBitcoinStandard by nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak
#BrokenMoney by nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a

All 3 great books I highly recommend!

Currently reading #TheFiatStandard also my nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak and enjoying it as well.

What else would y'all recommend?

#AskNostr


TSA stole a unique jar that was for a special edition model blender from my checked bag. They don't even make that model anymore so I can't get a replacement jar, and the blade wasn't even sharp or removable and was 2.5 inches in length... Fuck this bullshit security theater.


I don't pray, but I hope he recovers back to full health without much discomfort or trouble. 🫂❤


Ah I see. Curious, what is the total size of a fully synced relay currently? How close to fully synced is an average relay if you have access to that data?


As we know, correlation does not necessarily equal causation. But I hadn't seen this chart before, it'll be interesting to see where the price goes in the next few weeks...

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We don't, but we know what it is now and what it has been and it appears Bitcoin's price is following the pattern of the M2 but 10 weeks behind it.


So the notes bypass the internal drives entirely?


Probably, though most consumer level drives would still last at least a few years at that rate.


Good morning #Nostr! What're you wearing today?

It's a daily struggle for the most passionate among us...

#Bitcoin
#Memes

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You betcha. Love cheese!

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Fair point that it's the methods used to grow the meat that is likely more unsustainable than meat itself. I'm sure if carnivore diets really are more beneficial to human health we'll find ways to meet that demand more efficiently.

I'm curious what is your view on insects as an alternative and more efficient source of protein? Many non-western countries eat insects regularly, and from what I understand they're the most efficient form of animal proteins available.


Forgot to attach the updated photo... 🤦♂🫢

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Update: we added toasted buttered #EnglishMuffins and a #Guinness.

Also, the #steak is #perfect!

#SousVide steaks are amazing.

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Good evening #Nostr!

My girlfriend wanted a #steak #dinner, so here it is!

A side of #RoastedBroccoli with melted #Mexicancheese blend, a #choice (one day will be #grassfed) New York steak cooked medium rare with my #SousVide!

Bon appétit!

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The fact that the carnivore diet is being pushed so heavily on Nostr is concerning to me personally. From what I understand there is simply not enough surface area to grow the food needed to feed the livestock necessary for the entire planet to be pure carnivores. I'm sure many people have had great success being a carnivore, I wonder how much of that health improvement is actually related to switching away from processed foods however.

I advocate for a diet based largely on unprocessed food. Within that category I would think a healthy ratio would be something like:

15% meat (beef/chicken),
20% animal products (dairy/eggs),
50% (20/30) Fruit and vegetables (fresh greens, roots, whole seeds, legumes, nuts),
15% carbs (primarily whole grain, fresh ground, homemade bread. As well as brown rice grown in Asia or California).

I'm not a nutritionist, and honestly who really knows, but from what I've looked at those who follow keto/carnivore diets tend to die younger than those who follow primarily plant based unprocessed food diets and eat generally less calories than the average person. I know I feel great after drinking a "dirty juice" (Google it) blended in my Vitamix than I do after a steak.

Good luck on your journey to find the best diet for your system! We all want to be healthy, but we also need to be considerate of food with more sustainable land and water usage.


*then


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The currency will debase either way, and you will end up paying back those loans eventually so it's effect on debasement is negligible.

However the value of those loans to the Bitcoin network, and to yourself, is much higher and beneficial to society than the miniscule effect it has on debasement.

I say take out the loans, buy Bitcoin and don't stress.


ALL of the things measured from within a system that steals from you are designed to keep you in it.  Feeding on your energy and getting more chaotic and dangerous.

Prisoners dilemma of the highest order that most people as prisoners can’t see.

My sobering thoughts this morning after reading Nuclear War by Annie Jacobson.

Choose your time wisely!

#Bitcoin
#Nostr
#Fedimint
#Cashu


"Nothing stops this train."
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"Have you seen the latest Presidential debate?"

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Welcome to the Bitcoin experience. 😊

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Good morning fellow Nostridges. 🌄

In addition to the inevitable reading/watching/learning more about Bitcoin today, and stacking sats, I hope you get to spend some time with friends and family.

Remember, money is just a tool to get us what we really want: More time.

Don't forget what's really important.

Live, laugh, love. 🖖


💯 This train cannot be stopped. Bitcoin fixes the money which fixes the world. All the major problems people vote over will be able to be resolved because our monetary system will no longer be robbing us; no longer hurting our ability to actually fix things. Bitcoin doesn't care if you're red or blue, or anything else. It unites all of us. It doesn't matter who wins when it comes to Bitcoin and the long term. Don't worry. Just live your life knowing that your savings in #Bitcoin are helping grow the most #honest and #peace-enabling monetary system in history. Good things are coming. #Graduallythensuddenly.


#GM #Nostr!

I hope everything is going well in your lives, and if not I hope it improves soon!

I did the personality analysis tool from the post I'm quoting below. Neat. I actually like what it said and it was pretty accurate lol. Decided to share it here for fun, and also for a more permanent record of it. Kinda like keeping a nostr journal. Maybe I'll make an annual tradition out of this. 😆

> "TheBitcoinBattery is a passionate advocate for Bitcoin, displaying a unique blend of optimism and idealism. He constructs persuasive narratives around freedom, health, and economic systems."

Roast:
> "TheBitcoinBattery, your posts read like a cross between a Bitcoin manifesto and an over-caffeinated self-help book. You're out here jamming about how "Bitcoin is freedom money" while also enjoying the quiet life flicking through your 1000-title film library—because who wouldn't want to preserve the joys of cinema in a world of streaming chaos?

And congratulations on 100 followers! That's a milestone that surely took a lot of effort, considering the competition from those endless Bitcoin memes.

Your days seem filled with grand visions of Bitcoin saving the world, and yet, here you are, sharing your yogurt-making process like it's the next breakthrough in liberty. I mean, if only Congress would listen to your dreams of a 'Bitcoin Congress' discussion instead of tightening those pesky regulatory screws. Just imagine the looks when you start lecturing them on marginal costs of production in a dream!

Oh, and how about that dream where you stacked sats instead of working on your 'Crypto thesis'? Now that would be a plot twist worthy of a sci-fi classic.

Keep stacking, keep dreaming, and for goodness' sake, don’t forget to touch grass. You might just find it has more to offer than you expect. But hey, at least your posts are never quite dull!"

End of roast.

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😂 Hey now, stack sats *instead* of working on my Bitcoin Book / "Crypto Thesis"? Why not both? 😁

Have a great rest of your day everyone. Just remember DON'T PANIC, just stack sats. 🖖

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So you were an X user, now you're an XX user!


Currently watching my own physical copy of #BicentennialMan, one of my #favorite #films and my favorite work of #RobinWilliams.

If you haven't watched it, I highly recommend it!

Wonderful slow #movie about the value of #freedom, #love, #life and #death and how spending time with other people is what makes life worth living.

#Scifi
#Asimov

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For your contemplation... 👀

Green vertical lines marking September 2012, 2016, 2020, and 2024 (current) on the monthly #bitcoin chart.

This is the point of the cycle where the bears are seemingly victorious and increasingly insufferable.

This is your last chance to bail before upside volatility (likely) begins to take hold in earnest.

It is your last chance to fill the next four years of your financial life with serious regret.

IF YOU DON'T SELL YOUR BITCOIN IN SEPTEMBER 2024, YOU MAY BE FORCED TO RIDE THE ROCKET HIGHER OVER THE COMING 12-15 MONTHS. 🚀

You have been warned.

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#GM #Nostr!

100 #Followers! 🥳 Thank you all for clicking that little follow button next to my profile name, it means a lot! lol.

In other news, last night I had a dream that I found myself in a small room with maybe 50 Congressional representatives discussing how to fix the #economy and I felt compelled to speak!

I did my best but I was so nervous and my voice was super dry that I had extreme difficulty doing so. Thankfully this was a made up #dream #Congress so they were patient and actually open to hearing from a random #pleb such as myself. I did get out how we're trapped in the #FIAT system, but I also started having more trouble speaking before I woke up right as I tried to start explaining in depth how ₿ is our way out. If only dream Congress could've heard what I had to say! 😂

In reality I'm writing a book on ₿ and when it's finished I plan to mail a copy to every congressional representative. That will be my chance to speak.

Until then, just keep stacking! Also, shoutout to podcasts I listen to and highly recommend by nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u (nostr:npub10qrssqjsydd38j8mv7h27dq0ynpns3djgu88mhr7cr2qcqrgyezspkxqj8) and nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev (Bitcoin Audible) on Fountain! I listen to both frequently and learn a lot in doing so.

Have a great day everyone. ☮❤₿


Wait, if you deleted your Twitter that means you're an X user! I'll show myself out.


Web of Trust Relay:

This relay looks at who you follow, and who they follow, and saves every note in this trust network automatically.

I added it as my only relay in amethyst and spam is now completely gone.

Anyone in my web of trust can use my relay:

wss://wot.utxo.one

But the much better solution for nostr is to run your own WoT relay

https://github.com/bitvora/wot-relay

ps I'm faster than nostr:nprofile1qqsrhuxx8l9ex335q7he0f09aej04zpazpl0ne2cgukyawd24mayt8gprfmhxue69uhhq7tjv9kkjepwve5kzar2v9nzucm0d5hszxmhwden5te0wfjkccte9emk2um5v4exucn5vvhxxmmd9us2xuyp


It's always quietest before the storm... Stack sats at these prices while you can.


#GM #Nostr!

I just got home from a16 mile morning #BikeRide. 🚴💪

1000+ calories burned! Toning and being #fit and #healthy, now there's some #ProofOfWork for ya 🤪.

Have a great day everyone!


It is already in many businesses and cities across the world, but these things don't happen globally overnight. It takes time.


💯 Orange pilling doesn't happen overnight, and certainly not if you try to force it down their throats!

Yesterday a friend of mine who I hadn't seen in a while asked me how my "Crypto thesis" was going. I said I'm not writing a crypto thesis I'm writing a Bitcoin book.

I explained the difference between the two and she agreed with the premise that the overwhelming majority of cryptocurrency projects are scams, which I explained are just copies of Bitcoin which alone is not controlled by anyone.

She also commented to make sure I write about the ecological effects of Bitcoin. I replied "oh for sure! It's great! There's nothing better for the environment than Bitcoin mining" she looked like I was crazy lol.

I'm not going to be obnoxious about it, because they really have no idea and no desire to know more. They'll learn eventually though.

I did get another friend to actually engage with me for 2 hours last week and he said what I said makes a lot of sense, so I think I'm close to orange pilling him. 😀

I'm patient though, best thing you can do is be patient and confident and casually speak facts in normal conversation, and they'll come to you over time.


I'm more knowledgeable about freedom tech than the average person, yet I'm not a cyberpunk and I make mistakes to the point that I'm sure if someone wanted to figure out who I am they'd have no issue doing so given enough time. But that's true of everyone, the more knowledgeable you are the less mistakes you will make and the more effort will be required to locate you.

Just do your personal best, and try not to worry too much IMO.


I had both for years, then earlier this year I noticed how #Eth's price has lost it's correlation to BTC's price ever since they moved to proof of stake. They've been losing ground ever since.

This happened around the same time that I realized how important mining is to inject energy into the ecosystem. Proof of stake is a Zero-Sum game which by definition is a ponzi scheme, proof of work is not. I sold all my Eth for BTC and hold no shitcoin's now.

Proof of work is what pushes the price up over the long term, as everything moves towards it's marginal cost of production which doubles every 4 years, as well as increases gradually every time there's an increasing difficulty adjustment.

I wrote my thoughts on this in more detail yesterday:

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First time seeing an #ObviousPlant post on #Nostr instead of #Reddit!

Now we just need #KenM posts and we'll be golden 😂


HODLing and using Bitcoin can be a strange path to follow. At first, you want to try and 'save people'.

Then after a while, you realise you can't save them because lots of people don't want to be saved.

Help the people who are willing to listen, and be patient about it.


With phones in everyone's pockets, we've eliminated boredom.

But also eliminated contemplation along with it.


Being smart is easy. Being kind and patient is hard.


Everything trends towards it's marginal cost of production.

Think of how if there are shortages in production of any market good the price of all units in the supply of that good skyrocket to increase available supply to meet demand.

Bitcoin is the only asset in history that has a forever increasing marginal cost of production, in not one but two metrics, over the long term.

Historically everything sees increased efficiency in it's production over time, even Gold. This curtails any significant gains to be had, from societal efficiency improvements, just by holding it.

But with ₿ the increasing energy efficiency of ASICs over time is countered by the difficulty adjustment, maintaining the time required to mine the same amount of ₿ while increasing the energy required. As miners get more efficient, the network adjusts the mining difficulty to absorb that efficiency and result in no net gain.

The difficulty adjustment raises, and sometimes lowers in the short term, bitcoin's marginal cost of production related to electricity (but NOT time) based on the demand for Bitcoin on the open market. Due to market dynamics this effect is what drives the hash rate increases over time, and increases bitcoin's price measured in electricity.

Further, the halving forces a sudden 100% increase in the marginal cost of production every 4 years related to TIME as well as energy.

This functionally raises Bitcoin's price as measured in time.

For the first time we have a sovereign, liquid and global, bearer asset that actively counters human efforts to make more of it for less effort, and instead requires more time / effort / energy to get it as time goes on.

Bitcoin fixes our money, and is humanity's shared savings account.

This is why nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m famously said it goes up forever (Laura), and why there is no second best.

Once you leave the cave, you can never go back to the dark.

#fixthemoneyfixtheworld
#asics
#mining
#Bitcoin
#efficiency
#marginalcostofproduction
#lowtimepreference
#thereisnosecondbest


Update: I threw the card away.


I'm currently 20 min into waiting on hold to try and activate a "gift card" my friend thought they bought me for our local grocery store.

Turns out it's a prepaid bank account and they're legally required to get every piece of personal info I would need to give for opening a full bank account in order for me to access the huge sum of $20 my friend paid $22 to load onto it. But there's an option to give them less personal info so I can use it in a "limited capacity" at only the grocery store. You know, like a traditional gift card that this card is masquerading as.

This is why the legacy system will lose, how much human potential is wasted on these pointless meaningless wastes of time when we can just zap each other and settle instantly? BTC makes legacy finance adjust for the new economy or go extinct.


I built my own library at home. Nearly 1000 titles. Feels great to be in control of my entertainment. I no longer have any perpetual monthly fees that keep rising, no risk of titles being removed unexpectedly, no risk of ads being introduced, no scrolling through endless trash the algorithm wants me to watch. I can choose only quality shows that have no risk of being cancelled because they're already finished and I have the complete series on disc. I just have tons of quality stuff I've researched before adding to my collection. Plus, it's just fun to browse what I have.


It’s a beautiful day to be alive. https://i.nostr.build/DhwfdI3DnvQQDmcO.jpg


A web version of The Ethics of Money Production by Jörg Guido Hülsmann is now available for online reading.

https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/the-ethics-of-money-production/


Long form posts are better IMO, I do them frequently too.


It is good to do #nothing.

What do I mean by that?

In society we are often pressured to work all the time, to always do something "of value" or we're "wasting our time".

But this is often done without consideration for the benefit that a long term plan will have.

When you have a plan for the future, a plan where you know WHAT you're doing and WHY you're doing it, then when you finally spend time productively the result usually ends up higher #quality than if you dive straight in without a #plan. It's like taking more time to aim your shot, and learn how to aim as well, that when you finally pull the trigger you're more likely to hit what you're aiming at vs just blindly shooting.

How do you aim and figure out what you want your effort's outcome to be if you're always working and never refining your aim? You can't. Only by taking time for yourself where you do "nothing", do you then get to think about what you want for yourself and your future.

The more you do nothing, the more you have time to think. The more thinking you do, the better able you are to plan for your future. The better you plan for your future, the better it will be.

At the end of the day the narrative of "work work work work work" keeps us all unable to think, and thus unable to plan how to break free of the system. Keeping us trapped, poor, and unable to make uncompromised decisions.

Give yourself time to do nothing, and this will lead to improving yourself mentally/physically/emotionally/financially. Both by the health benefits of relaxation and by knowing what you actually want for your life.

When thought of this way you might say "nothing is more productive than work" and that's something everyone can agree on.

#lowtimepreference
#longterm
#goals
#productivity
#qualityoflife
#planning
#work


They're also on Nostr if you just want to zap them: nostr:npub1zkr064avsxmxzaasppamps86ge0npwvft9yu3ymgxmk9umx3xyeq9sk6ec just sent some sats.


GM Jeff 😄🌅🌄


Awesome! It works!

https://media.tenor.com/X15e67QrANUAAAAC/the-office.gif

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GM Nostridges!

Everyday is a beautiful day in the modern world, even if we don't always feel that way.

Do not forget that we default to a focus on what makes us feel unsafe and afraid, even when all the evidence points to life being better than it ever has been.

We are all very lucky to be alive today; We have longer life expectancies, more knowledge of our world and cosmos, and so much more potential for growth and relaxation than we ever have in history.

Our world of abundance is already here, you just have to choose to live in it. It really is a choice, a mindset of hope and vision for the future. Choose abundance, choose hope.

This post inspired by this video I watched this morning, I highly recommend giving it a watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Mb0cbDenA


It works!

https://media.tenor.com/FYLC3YCrAjIAAAAC/applause.gif


It's a constant struggle yes, 2 steps forward and 1 step back, but humanity has come this far and we will never stop finding ways to improve. I am sometimes pessimistic as well, but I prefer optimism generally. Makes me feel better if nothing else.


₿ and Nostr are on the same team, and their network effects accelerate the adoption of each other. I can't wait until everyone uses both!


That's not what us HODLers  mean.

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I'd like to add that this is not meant to say "don't spend anything! Save everything and never eat out, never buy fun stuff, never go on vacation!" and so on. Instead it's meant to make you be more conservative and delay gratification as long as you deem it reasonable, do I want to spend my money on cheap stuff now or be more patient and have better stuff later?

Because humanity never stops producing more stuff, and Bitcoin will never grow it's capped supply, relative to that capped supply of Bitcoin units the ever growing supply of new stuff gets lower and lower in cost. This is what nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m meant by "It's going up forever Laura!" and what nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe means when he talks about us living in a world of abundance where everything getting cheaper over time.

But do not forget that while our Bitcoin value grows, we're constantly losing time on the slow march towards the end of our time among the living.

We all have to balance whether the enjoyment we get from getting things earlier in our finite lives exceeds the greater value the finite Bitcoin spent on it will grow into.

For example, I have spent the equivalent of about 0.15 ₿ on my collection of physical media since the end of 2023. But I'm spending far less than I would otherwise because I'm also spending a lot of my free time finding the best deals possible, I find it feels like a treasure hunt! Shopping at thrift stores, online eBay resellers for used copies, or sales direct from the manufacturers.

This collection of physical media is more valuable to me than 0.15 ₿ is, because it's engineered fun for myself and my family and friends that I get to own and use without needing permission from anyone else, for the rest of my life.

Maximize your enjoyment of life, Bitcoin is just the greatest tool to do so. Don't HODL forever, but be more conscious in how you spend your savings and future you will be grateful for it.


Replied to nostr:npub1x6h3prp8d9xn0dmsw0xsgnhuraw84zsy8de0pak9kly3a9fh0zmqsg0htebut thought a direct reply to you was also a good idea for more visibility, and because it's also directly relevant to your post.

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I've thought a lot about this, and base my personal presumptions on the power law model found at https://www.porkopolis.io/thechart/ which says on January 1st 2027 the bottom will be $70k.

Comparing crashes, every time the price has crashed to a bottom of 80% or more down from it's all time high.

Considering this, I expect 5x the bottom of $70k to be the top. Or $350k. it could stutter before then, or crash less or more than 80%+,  but even if it were to "only" crash 75% from it's ATH, than we're looking at a $280k top. Anything could happen though, so I'm personally guessing the top will be anywhere between $225k - $450k. If one were to sell any of their stack anywhere in that range, they'd be able to buy back in a year later and increase their position.

This actually helps both the Bitcoiner and the Bitcoin Network overall, because they're extracting economic energy from the liquidity pool when it's too high and at unsustainable levels, and inserting it again when it's at levels that are too low and where people are hurting because of it.


Yep! 💯

Bitcoin's mining network accelerates the development and deployment of ever more efficient renewable energy technology, by providing a huge incentive to create cheap and abundant energy which increases the profitability of the mining equipment. This future of abundance is accelerating towards us and will arrive much more quickly than people expect. The world isn't ready and doesn't expect it, but they're going to be forced to be freed by this abundance whether they like Bitcoin or not. 😆


The algorithms are designed to do one thing and one thing only, increase engagement to increase exposure time to ads. What increases engagement the most? Negativity. So they boost negative content and suppress positive content.

On Nostr the negative content has no power if we all simply ignore it.

I received a negative comment from someone last week. "Shut up loser" is all they said, I just blocked them and moved on. The best action is no reaction, to not give them attention. Let them be negative in their little corner of the Internet, doesn't affect me cause I won't engage with it and neither will the people who I do engage with.


Welcome to outside the cave. ❤


Well said Logan.

I agree about the potentials for cultural innovation and revitalization on a Bitcoin standard. It's one of the most inspiring dimensions of hard money - when we no longer need to think about money and inflation and can focus on more important matters of culture.

I was curious some time ago to explore how much of our savings are lost due to inflation.

As I went ahead and wrote a short program, I found that at 2% yearly inflation and zero taxes, we experience a ~35% loss of purchasing power on our accumulated savings over a 45 year career.

Since we are aware that the CPI figures are politically cherrypicked and don't measure the actual cost of living, a ~7% yearly inflation will better matche the expansion of the money supply (M2) and the value increase of the stock market.

At 7% yearly inflation and zero taxes, we lose ~71% of purchasing power on savings over a 45 year career.

Add taxes and we lose more than 80% of our purchasing power on savings during a normal career.

Below are four different examples of cumulative inflation visualized on a year-by-year basis.

By showing the data I hope to visualize the problems of inflation with some additional clarity. When we have ~3% left of our savings from 45 years ago, we enter mindboggling territory of theft.

https://image.nostr.build/5d5a6d70d01d34df73297e4ae75196ce39a3f3a64560a1939ea7ea2f69880df2.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/1d81d64c1986bf407a521e0dcf9e088618a4df59df263292936efbad331c7c9a.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/0902852ae0f7e4977115bda795a64bc9075962e7c7701cd20596d6e9c9594972.jpg

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#Inflation


This is why when we're on a global Bitcoin standard I believe people will be financially free after only 10 - 15 years of time in the workforce, instead of the current 40 - 50.

Imagine how much better life would be if everyone worked only as much as they wanted to, because everything was affordable. This is what Bitcoin truly gives us, our lives back.


Consumerism is a value of the fiat system. It is both literally a value, since we measure economic health in large part by measuring consumption, and also an ingrained mode of behavior. By disincentivizing mindless, reflexive consumption and incentivizing a lower time preference, #Bitcoin, if it continues to grow in adoption, offers the promise of a cultural foregrounding of deeper things, like fulfilling pursuits, relationships, creativity, contribution to community, presence, etc.

#Bitcoin is money that, through its soundness, will hopefully allow us to actually get past thinking about money all the time so that we can make room for life’s important things - which tend to get lost, neglected, and/or sacrificed in consumption and the systemically coerced pursuit of more and more money.

We spend so much time thinking about money (how to get it, how to get more of it, how to make it grow, how to keep up with inflation, how to invest it, how to spend it, what to spend it on, how to get rich quick, how to pay the bills, etc). And to a certain extent this will always be true.

But when money does not hold its value, when it is continuously debased, when the sovereign debt is so massive it must be inflated away, and when the economic health of a country is measured by how much it consumes, it creates an environment in which money is practically all we think about.

Looking forward to a world in which this is no longer the case.


Actual speech disappears instantly and only exists afterwards through first or second hand written accounts. Nostr may not be able to permanently keep a record of all notes, but through nostr our speech is much more likely to last for decades or even centuries and millennia.


Gotta love the central bank grift.

> Never fund critical thinking courses in public schools, or courses on how money works, or on how to protect your wealth.

> Encourages everyone to invest in the stock market for retirement, without teaching anybody how to do it in schools.

> Average people working to make ends meet just keep their excess in a savings account with no interest.

> Borrows dollars from everyone and promises to pay it back with (on average) 4.2% annual "interest".

> Prints on average about 7% new dollars in a year so all dollars are worth about 7% less. This includes the previous loan debts that need to be paid back. 4.2% (interest) minus 7% (debasement caused value reduction) nets a real return of -2.8%. Treasuries are a bad investment.

> Measures the countries economic growth in dollars year over year, without adjusting for the reduction in the real value of the dollar.

> Economy "grows" 2 - 4% every year as measured in dollar units.

> Proclaim: Success! Economic growth goal succeeded!

Gee I wonder why average people earning an the average income can no longer afford basic living expenses anymore, like a average home or childcare or healthcare or university.

Don't worry though, the economy is doing great...


#CentralBanks and #Governments be like:

"The inflationary theft of your savings and wages will continue so the #economy improves."


This is hilarious. https://v.nostr.build/5kuQ21aenpPVqu3T.mp4


GM fellow Nostridges!

What y'all having for #breakfast?

Here's what I often have lately, a thick smoothie with tons of fruit and greens. I literally don't feel the same without drinking this regularly, highly recommend it for improving your health!

Recipe inspired by https://alittleinsanity.com/dirty-juice/

https://m.primal.net/KRuM.jpg


That card looks awesome!


I will give one of our limited edition nostr:npub1g3ra9r7duxrh8q0l2l08ku73ptdfgr0z376mvc2earlfhm6s6xxss8lnnz nostr:npub1yjryjq2kdganuc69zme9agk0q4rjcnlxel3fwp3xm9z68phsxngsqd33a9 ‘The Liberator’ cards to two people who ❤ and ♻ this post. If over 100 people ❤/♻ I will add a third card.

https://image.nostr.build/8c5726b0796ae73c79a2cb7754e6f961ed7666e9adaa22a91f6ef4e46d1c636b.jpg


I like it occasionally. Flat water is the OG though.


Twitter is dead, it's grave marked with an X.


Congrats and good luck Peter! I look forward to watching your new show!


Followed, welcome!


I despise them. So I mix them with my own homemade sour cream to make delicious extra fat greek yogurt with chopped fresh/frozen fruit mixed in. 😁

I use an Instant Pot with it's yogurt function to incubate the sour cream like yogurt. I make it from pure heavy whipping cream, or mixed at a 1 to 2 ratio of HWC to half n half, within clean and sterilized (with the high pressure mode for 1 minute) pint mason jars and leak proof lids.

If you use UHT cream and half n half then you literally just mix them together with a small spoonful of starter culture (I like plain Fage) and after mixing with sterile equipment incubate for 6 hours or so. The longer you incubate the more sour it gets, I prefer mine to be more mild like with Mexican Crema.

Then I buy a big container of Costco plain organic nonfat Greek yogurt, and mix them with fruit and sweeteners to personal preference! Delicious, and the unopened sour cream jars last for MONTHS in the fridge without any off taste or color. My home is never without sour cream now. 😁

Pics: https://image.nostr.build/8f3ce1081fbdcc3f92b37291c2df9234f888cb0bfbffaeff8748626fdc9b4a0b.jpg
 https://image.nostr.build/1c19546d8d200fcb04a818dd5cc71f6fbac0af33dbff193ad8e675665db11b34.jpg


In our universe, #time is the ultimate scarce resource, no way to make more. #Bitcoin mirrors this, with a capped supply of 21 million. Both are finite, making them unique assets. . https://youtu.be/GS_8kNQuzMQ


@Michael Saylor is right that people view Bitcoin in a religious way. Religion has traditionally given people hope through unverifiable truths, this causes conflict with others who disagree. Bitcoin gives us hope but through VERIFIABLE truth.

I don't worship Bitcoin, I don't think anybody does, but I do revere it. For it is the ultimate #foundation for our current world of #abundance that is hidden by the fog of FIAT debasement. @Jeff Booth is right about that.

The inner peace and hope for the world that years of thinking about Bitcoin brings feel the most similar to the type of feelings I got from my prior religious views, but it doesn't also bring along the baggage or cognitive dissonance that those beliefs had either.

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Pre-Bitcoiners often say "#Bitcoin has no #utility value" but the Bitcoin network does indeed have perhaps the most important utility value of all time.

Globally available, #IndependentlyVerifiable, #incorruptible #TRUTH. That is it's utility value.

Providing the ultimate economic foundation of truth for a peaceful world of abundance. THAT is it's utility value.

Stopping the primary method of wealth theft and transfer, which increases global inequality. THAT is it's utility value.

Ending the ability of governments to siphon economic energy from their people, to keep themselves in power and fuel unpopular wars. THAT is it's utility value.

Where unverifiable beliefs divide us, verifiable truths unite us.

₿ = TRUTH

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I’ve been off Twitter and all social media except for Nostr for a month now, and the results are hard to argue with.

I’ve started reading real books again (4 this month) and have noticed both my patience and attention increase noticeably. I also feel less angry and anxiety daily, along with being committed to my workout routine.

I found that Nostr has met my social media needs, most importantly, my own ability to self-limit with it. Nostr is a bit ‘boring’ compared to traditional social media because ITS NOT TRYING TO KILL YOU!!!

Controlling your own data isn’t nearly as important in terms of ownership, as it is about allowing that information to be used against you. All of your most intimate thoughts and feelings are data mining by massive corporations specifically to find emotional triggers for you, so they can sell you shit, or force thoughts on to you.

Fuck these people that run these companies that farm our emotions to sell us shit, and to work with corrupt government to censor our speech, sell out dissidents, and destroy our internet.

We are much, much, much more powerful than they will ever be because we don’t need force, corrosion, or permission to run these systems of social connections that they cannot destroy.

My month of social media detox has really lifted the veil from the hate industry complex that are all social media companies today. Stop prostitution your content, thoughts and powers to these shitty companies that enrich the scum of the earth, and empower illegal, unconstitutional and immoral government agencies from their dragnet surveillance.

I’ll make one last tweet explaining this and then nuking my account in the next few weeks. Then I’ll be Nostr only.


Why not just use actual physical sats since they're so cheap?

jk


Gotta love receiving random invoices for things I supposedly owe. 😂


I will say this.

When people disagree on something, and that something is fundamental to how they see the world in a sense of good/evil, they will often resort to extreme measures to enforce what they see as 'good' and remove what they see as 'bad'.

This doesn't apply only to religion, this also applies to any group identity that is concerned with another group that they see as wrong. Things get especially bad when the opposing group and it's beliefs are seen as irredeemably evil.

Think opposing sides in any international or intranational disagreements, religious conflicts, or political conflicts, and so on. If the two sides cannot come to common ground through open communication, founded upon mutually agreed upon independently verifiable truths that unite them, they will often escalate until violence breaks out. This occurs due to disagreements themselves, regardless of the subject matter of the disagreement.

Whether or not we agree on which events are genocides, or just plain violence against other people, there are countless events throughout history in which religion or religious ways of thinking was either a primary or secondary factor that exacerbated the situation.

Religions and religious beliefs are things which humans do not and cannot ever agree on. Why? Because they are things which self admittedly are grounded on things that require faith to believe in.

If religious beliefs do become independently verifiable truths, then they no longer require faith and just become shared truths of humanity. For instance nobody worships the sun these days because we now understand what it is: a ball of nuclear fusion that radiates energy at the center of our solar system, to which our planet is gravitationally tethered. It doesn't hear or answer prayers, it has no consciousness and doesn't even know we or itself exists at all.

Things that require faith are things that have no independently verifiable ways of determining their truth. If there are no independently verifiable ways of testing any religious beliefs, then we will never be able to find common ground in them.

Without a way to find common ground, we self organize into groups who disagree on details that have no concrete agreed upon answer.

These groups will come to violence if they cannot find common ground, and that isn't possible with faith based beliefs.

The only common ground religions have is when they group together against another group with alternative viewpoints in which they disagree.

For this reason the world can never be peaceful until it grows out of the cradle of religious thinking. Not because religious thinking itself is bad, but because it is just a branch of the type of irrational thinking that breeds conflicts through disagreements on things for which there is no obviously verifiable truth.

Show me a religion that doesn't require faith and is purely based on independently verifiable objective truths that everyone agrees on. There aren't any, because that's not how religion works.

Religions are a type of organization that train people to just accept things that they're told on faith, to be subordinates. They make people who are willing to bow to authority figures who often claim they have been given this authority by an unseen being. This leads to good people being willing to do things they otherwise wouldn't, such as assault or even murder others.

Until we find a way to separate humanity from unverifiable beliefs, and discourage blind obedience and subordination authority figures of all kinds, the world will never have peace.


You can't be serious dude.


I love this. The future is not in locking information behind paywalls/copyright, only payable through intermediaries who give you permission and also take a cut, it will be through the open sharing of information in global communal libraries with open membership to all.

Instead of forcing people to pay you to access your content at a price you decide, it will be a world where people can freely view information and just choose to pay the creators directly or not in exchange for the value the information received gave to their lives.

We already live in a world of abundance, most people just don't see it through the fog of the centralized authorities who are emboldened by the FIAT system. A system that is intentionally made confusing and hard to understand, because people fear what they do not understand which keeps them subordinate. Nostr and Bitcoin clear the fog, and frees all of human kind from this intentionally created bondage.

Thank you for your immense contribution to society nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s! Nostr + Bitcoin is going to change everything.


Not sure if I qualify but I've been posting regularly for the past few weeks lol.


Perhaps there's a greater upside TBH, with Nostr you can grow a following that directly pays you for the value you post. Nostr can provide a direct income, Bitcoin growth/savings can provide an indirect one.


I've gotten the same message twice as well, from the same person each time!Seems they're claiming they're a relay. Ridiculous. I received no reply to my message that I'm not paying randomly received invoices, except they then sent me another invoice that was SMALLER than the first. Interesting business model; the more I use their service, and don't pay them, the cheaper it gets! 😂


Primal and Amethyst. I use primal primarily (heh), but I like how amethyst has a different way of sorting and showing me posts. I like some things about amethyst better and some things about primal better, but I have less friction zapping posts thanks to primals built in wallet.

I have Phoenix wallet to zap with amethyst, but Phoenix charges me fees of 2 - 4 Satoshis per zap and primal doesn't so I also use primal to save on fees. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯


GM! I hope everyone has a beautiful day today!


This would fall into the philosophical argument of the trolley problem I think. Is it morally superior to intervene and save 5 people who will die, if it means your actions directly cause the death of 1 other person who would have lived?

It's a thought provoking question. But, for this Utilitarian Humanist anyway, the greatest good for the greatest number would not lead to genocide in any sense. I do not see how genocide stems from that. I do know definitively however that religious believes are the cause of a not-insignificant number of genocides. So I very much disagree that religion prioritizes the individuals well being and prevents genocide.


I always find it excruciatingly hilarious when I hear people arguing over the wars that are going on right now. Listening to them try to explain and convince others about which side deserves to "win"—blah blah blah!—without realizing that the only real winners are governments and corporations, the latter of which fund conflicts just as often as the former.

Referring to something as "military aid" across all media outlets is a hysterically easy method of forcing the majority of the global population to simply turn a blind eye to everything I mentioned in the latter portion of my statement above and preventing them from seeing everything for what it truly is: war profiteering. Although I believe that most of us can admit that what's collectively happening around the globe is not in accordance with whatever purported plans these so-called string-pullers had. This is both a good and bad scenario for all of us. The bad: as we can all see, that when the progression of these well-thought-out devious plans that these tyrants produced isn't in accordance with their initial objectives, they aren't afraid to take it out on us. The good: it creates a very rare moment of vulnerability within their war-based establishment. A moment that citizens like us shouldn't be ignoring and should instead use it to our advantage. That, combined with the growing influence and recognizability of Bitcoin, the incompetence we've witnessed in national governments' attempts to understand it, and the technology backing it, arguably gives us a huge advantage.

Election season is here and the next year is going to be CRAZY!

Be careful and be prepared 😅🫂!

P.s. don't be lazy when it comes to the "be prepared" part. Food shortages, water shortages, possible blackouts etc. will most likely occur at some point.


I think it's more Satoshi -> 🌎🌍


Being a part of a "group", such as racial or national identities, brings a lot of baggage and guilt by association. Actually joining groups who identify with certain specific views also brings a lot of pressure to conform to the views of the group.

The lotteries (genetic and otherwise) that determined what I look like, sound like, who I'm related to, which part of the planet I live in (and by extension what language I speak, the religious/political/social views of the people around me that I was likely brought up to believe, the type of economic system used and my economic status within it), do not represent who I am or my views as an individual.

We need to stop grouping each other, and focus on the individuals within each of us.

I am who I am. For better or for worse, I get to choose the type of person I am.


Whether one believes in God or Gods or the lack thereof, recognizing all of humanity as a single unified group who can universally benefit by prioritizing the greatest good for the greatest number of people is the path to a very beautiful world indeed.


No.


It's fun, stick around for a while and shit talk with us about Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays.


These days I subscribe to YouTube, a budgeting app to help me keep all my FIAT accounts in order, and I have a membership to my local theme park, but that's about it. Overall what I spend money on I own.

I caught the own-my-own-movie-library bug late last year, I now have nearly 1000 titles for less than $7 each on average.

I'm heavily considering starting a modern movie rentals club for people in my city to help people get off streaming services and inspire them to start building their own collections.

#Ownership is #sovereignty.


Personal use I now primarily use #Nostr / #Fountain #podcasts. I still lightly use #Lemmy, and a decent amount of time on #Reddit, never really used #Facebook or #Instagram all that much, never used #Twitter seriously. NEVER installed #TikTok.

I'm all for the Nostr future where we're the only ones in control of our accounts! No censorship! Power to the individual. Freedom tech is a beautiful thing to see develop at an ever faster pace thanks to being supported by #SoundMoney in #Bitcoin.


And FUCK centralized / controlled / censored information silos while we're at it. (Plus it's more relevant to Nostr lol)


United we stand for freedom tech. FUCK central banks.


Well said.

Live like no one else today, so you can live like no one else tomorrow.

The difficulty of raising children is more than fairly rewarded by having a strong family to help you in your elder years, and to have people you can pass your wisdom onto in return!

It's truly sad that the FIAT system isn't just stealing our savings and wages, it's actually stealing our families too. The family's that we would otherwise be able to afford to build if we were on a sound monetary system.

'DINK' being a movement is purely a consequence of constant FIAT debasement, they're enjoying life without kids when they're young, and they'll be extremely alone when they're in the final years of their lives.

Bitcoin truly fixes nearly everything that's wrong with the world today. It's beneficial effects fix every far reaching consequence of FIAT, and it cannot be stopped.

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I love Nostr a LOT, but I must wholeheartedly disagree with you there. ₿ is a paradigm shift and frees humanity from itself. Nostr will help ₿ and ₿ will help Nostr, but let's not pretend that Nostr is somehow better than the mechanism to stop currency/savings/wage debasement globally.


Happy birthday!


After seeing the linked photo I shared in my last post, I was reminded again of #CarlSagan's 3 min speech on the #PaleBlueDot. Which if you haven't heard it before, is viewable here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wupToqz1e2g

We are the guardians of this blue dot we call home, the #FIAT system is poisoning it and #Bitcoin is the antidote. Through it's market incentives to reduce spending, slowing the economy down to a healthier pace, and increasing energy abundance. In essence: By saving in Bitcoin, you're saving the #Earth.

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Laser Eyes.

https://m.primal.net/KLBR.jpg


*there's


#askNostr

When sending Zaps on Primal theirs no fee that I can see, only the exact zaps themselves leave my account.

But when I Zap on Amethyst it asks for an external wallet to send from and I choose Phoenix. Phoenix wallet charges fees, 2 sat fee to send 1 test sat, 4 sat fee to send 21 sats.

How can primal zap without fees?


Not quite that long but I'm approaching 6 months since my first Nostr activity! Though I've become really active only in the last month or so.


What information am I missing about seed oils being particularly worth avoiding? what qualifies as a seed oil? Are fruit oils okay such as Avocado? What about coconut? Coconut is a seed is it not? Palm fruit vs Palm kernal oil?

Are nut oils considered okay or seed oils?

I'm genuinely wanting to know, I want to expand my awareness.


What oil is best used to make mayonnaise with at home? Avocado oil?


*grass feed their cows.

*healthier source of fat.


Our primary milk is Low-Vat pasteurized and available from local health food stores. Look for local producers who also grass feed they cows and don't charge an arm and a leg more over the conventional stuff.

I like to spend up to 16500 - 20,000 Sats (~$10 - $12.12) a gallon for the high quality/cost sweet spot.

I also like to use my Vitamix to blend my own home made nut milks with natural sweeteners mixed with erythritol and monk fruit. Delicious and creamy and no need to filter them. As far as I'm aware they're a healthier force of fat that's okay to eat. Let me know if I should think otherwise!


When it comes to land use efficiency, Palm oil is the highest producer of healthy fruit oils per acre of land used. There's nothing more efficient for the fats needed for processed foods. I imagine since it's fruit oil like avocado, it's probably one of the healthiest of the low cost options as well.


Great overview of the potential for #Nostr as much more than just an alternative to Twitter.

Appreciate the insights of nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a here and it was awesome to be able to just listen to it on my 12 mile bike ride this morning!

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Actually, with ₿ it does. You don't understand yet, but you will.


I just bought my first ever Washer and dryer set. $175 used on OfferUp. Dryer works great but I needed to spend $25 on a new cable to connect to my older outlet. Washer works... but bangs due to imbalance, turns out it needs new suspension rods which after shipping, and 2 other small items recommended at the same time, was about $75. All in all $275 plus some time to repair them is a pretty good deal for a washing machine and dryer set! Going used is always going to save you money if you can spend the time to get / keep them working. Also saves things from landfills which is a big plus in my book.

If money is no object though, and you don't want to get your hands dirty, Speed Queen is what I've read as being the best quality money can buy. That and Maytag Commercial. 🍻


"When Bitcoin is your bank account, when every dollar you earn is going into Bitcoin, you are disproportionately exposed to the net positive volatility of Bitcoin. You tend to spend more when it goes up, save more when it goes down. Do I regret spending 0.1 BTC on a cell phone? No. Everyone else should regret not putting their entire bank account in Bitcoin. It's not those of us living on Bitcoin losing out, it's those of you treating it like an investment." -Guy I know on discord.


Discouraging spending is a feature, not a bug. We need a world of increasing efficiency that benefits everyone, where you spend less but receive more. Debt based FIAT systems are incompatible with this, ₿ enables it.


I was just walking down the street, coffee in hand, suddenly realizing how "normal" it all is already. Like most days, I went to a coffee shop that accepts lightning. Like most days, I paid directly with sats that someone zapped me here on nostr. Like most days, neither the merchant nor myself thought twice about it, or took a minute to marvel at what just happened.

So, allow me to do just that. Marvel at what just happened. While everyone is having a fantastically crazy time at #nostriga, uncountable people are using bitcoin in a myriad of ways. Some for savings, large and small; some for transactions, large and small; some for other stuff. Bitcoin is slowly but surely entering the world stage. Some commentators will tell you that this is good. Some commentators will tell you that this is bad. Whatever the case may be, it is unavoidable.

I see nostr under a similar light. As platform-based manipulation and censorship ramps up—which it inevitably will—the usage of nostr will ramp up too, and with it the usage of zaps and everything else that comes with it. And soon enough, buying a coffee (or breakfast, lunch, and dinner) with zap-based income will be normal. Just like it's "normal" to be an "influencer" today, or a "YouTuber" or whatnot... It's not everyone's cup of tea, but it's a normal thing. Anyone can do it.

Back to my coffee. I remember when I had the "oh my god, I can live on bitcoin here!!!" experience for the first time. It was in Bitcoin Jungle, a couple of months after the initiative was launched. I stayed there for 2 weeks or so, buying the necessities of daily life with sats outright. And it worked. Flawlessly. I had zero payment failures, and was exclusively using Zeus with my own node. It was incredible.

Why is this incredible, you ask? Shouldn't stuff just work? Yes, it should. But building out the tech and the infrastructure to make it all work is BLOODY HARD. I remember the first Lightning Conference in Berlin, in 2019. Everyone came, everyone had all their channels and wallets and everything prepared, and ~50% of payments failed. For... reasons.

Fast-forward to today: I go to one of the 100+ merchants in the city that accept bitcoin, a quick tap on the PoS device & QR code scan, boom, done. Is it always perfect? Of course not. Will it get better still? 100% it will. Very soon these merchants will have NFC-enabled devices, and the tap-to-pay experience that people are used to with cards & Apple pay will be normal for bitcoin payments too. If you are in Riga right now, you'll experience this first-hand thanks to Bolt cards and BTCPay Server. It's awesome, it's open-source, and it works. And it will get better still.

We are truly living in the best and weirdest timeline; a timeline where shitposting on the internet can buy you lunch and dinner; a timeline that spawns amazing technological movements like #nostr; a timeline that, every ~10 minutes, allows for a small miracle to happen. A timeline where "magic internet money" is a normal thing; a timeline that, thanks to the magic dust of cryptography, enables anyone to speak about anything, without having to ask for permission. I'm grateful.

Thank you, Satoshi. 🙏🧡


* #MixingMachines

** mass produced books. (Not "ass produced" LMAO)


GM #Nostr. Here is something I like to remind myself of every now and again.

When #thinking about our lives we all tend to take what's #positive for granted, and focus on what's #negative. This is #natural as #evolutionarily you're much more likely to #survive if you only #focus on the #threats to your well being rather than what's benefitting you. We are just another member of the #AnimalKingdom after all, and our distant #ancestors had to #evolve traits that helped them to survive their #harsh #environments.

But in #modern times this evolutionary #trait has itself become more of a #threat to our lives via it's #detrimental effect on our #MentalHealth. And, rather than combatting it, #society generally uses this trait to gain attention and make #money through the constant stream of #negativity in the news, and #algorithms that give us the most #engaging #information (which is virtually guaranteed to be negative).

Yet as the #reality grows that threats become more #distant, and benefits become more #personal, it's important to remember to reset this way of thinking with #acknowledgements of what is going *well* with our lives.

In #2024 we are roughly 2 centuries into the #IndustrialRevolution which brought incredible #productivity gains to society. Most of these gains have been co-opted by the elite through various methods, largely to the disadvantage of those living in the 3rd world rather than the 1st.

But as these advancements are so significant, even when the system is corruptly siphoning our collective energy to the elite, we all still benefit greatly. Albeit at different levels depending on what part of the world you're living in.

Over the last 200 years the average person's #QualityOfLife has improved drastically everywhere.

We don't often think about how much better our lives are today than they were in the past, but they really are. In that time we've seen tremendous advancements in:

#Communications
(#telegraph, #telephone, #radio, #television, the #Internet, #mobile devices),

Food preservation and storage techniques (#canning, #refrigeration (which includes #freezers), freeze drying, and more.),

#Transportation
(#trains, #bicycles, #automobiles, #airplanes, #helicopters.),

Home cook assistants
(#Blenders, #FoodProcessors, MixingMachines, #Ovens, #PressureCookers, #RiceCookers, #BreadMachines, #SousVide, etc.),

Cleaning assistants
(#Dishwashers, #laundry washing and drying machines, #vacuums, etc.)

Home comfort improvements
(Interior #lighting, #CentralHeating and #AirConditioning, low cost #flooring whether #carpet or otherwise, etc.)

#Entertainment (for better or worse)
(Prepared outdoor #trails for #hiking and #biking, #Movies, #TV shows, #VideoGames, #SocialMedia, #TableTopGames, recorded #music,ass produced #books both physical and electronic, and more!).

It truly has never been a better time to be a part of the #HumanExperience.

The #FIAT system benefits from you focusing on the negative, telling you what you have isn't enough and that you always need more. Which you must get into #debt to pay for.

At what point do you ever have enough? The architects of the FIAT system and Keynesian economists want you to believe you never can.

But we already live in a future our ancestors could only #dream of, this is the closest to #paradise humanity has ever been. But #progress never stops, so every day is better than the last at an ever accelerating rate.

#Truth and #goodness will win this fight. Humanity cannot be suppressed forever.

Find out how to give back to yourself as much time you can, as that is the ultimate resource that we each have. Even if that means just sitting and doing nothing but thinking. Being alone with your own thoughts is what truly frees you, because it allows you to actually think about what matters to you and what you want to do with the rest of the fleeting time you have left in this life.

Life is short, make the most of it. 🖖


LOL. Looks like nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5 has a bug where everytime I add a hashtag (maybe just when replying to comments?) it will extend the entire message and make it all glitchy. We're very early in the development of this ecosystem and I love to see it!


Replying on nostr:npub1v5ufyh4lkeslgxxcclg8f0hzazhaw7rsrhvfquxzm2fk64c72hps45n0v5! I completely agree Lyn, people have no idea how much this is going to change the world.

EVERY website and social media integrated with #Nostr. See something you like? Zap it, share it, comment on it. Automatically see the replies to comments from who you follow above everyone else, feel like you actually have an online community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future!
Nostr. See something you like? #Zap it, share it, comment on it. Automatically see the replies to comments from who you follow above everyone else, feel like you actually have an online community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.￼
Zap it, share it, comment on it. Automatically see the replies to comments from who you follow above everyone else, feel like you actually have an online #community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.￼￼
community of friends that is all over the Internet with you. Be able to send value in exchange for value in any amount with virtually no transaction fees over #Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.￼￼￼
Lightning.

I couldn't be more excited for the future.


Guy Swann has provided an audio version of my long-form article about Nostr.

It reminded me that he was another example of someone I paid for non-tipping things using Nostr as the payment discovery mechanism. Guy performed the audio editing for the individual files of my "Broken Money" youtube video. And I paid him for it not by having to ask for his invoice or anything, but rather just by looking him up on Nostr and paying him.

Venmo-like payment discovery in an open-source and globally-interoperable way is a big deal in the long run.

https://fountain.fm/episode/wgkqiF4AAXgvn4PPowPO


Update: Found it.

https://f-droid.org/packages/com.greenart7c3.nostrsigner/

Amber Android Open source Nostr signing app. 😎


Damn, now THIS makes me super excited for the future of #Nostr! Kudos to y'all for making this update. Permissionless integration of open source Bitcoin empowered social media into everything is the future! I love podcasts so I can't wait to try Fountain and support you guys. Question though, I am still new to Nostr and want to avoid sharing my Nsec with every app. Is there any way to connect my Nostr with fountain without sharing my Nsec? I'm on Android.


I don't know the trend you're talking about, could you provide an example?


It is getting exceedingly difficult to see redeeming qualities of either option unfortunately.


Every day, your government is working hard to convince you that ongoing theft of your hard-earned purchasing power is not only normal, but is actually good for you and for the economy.

This is a lie, but very few understand it.


I do opt out, with ₿. By owning and holding ₿ for the long term, I'm voting for a system that leads to a better way of life. And I'm supporting companies and people around the world who choose the same. The only way to win, is to not play their game.


It's sad that you think you actually have a choice at all. Really, the fact that we only ever have 2 - 20 people to pick from (depending on if you count the primaries or not) is proof you don't get to choose. It's an illusion of choice. The wealthy only fund campaigns that either way further their interests. Good luck running a successful campaign on actual change, because the people it would benefit the most have the least money and are struggling to just survive.

Statistically your vote is at best about as likely to affect the outcome of the election as you are to be struck by lightning in a given year, at worst it's much less likely than that.

These elections are more America's reality TV show anymore than able to affect actual change in our government.

Welcome to election season! Who will you pick out of the less than 2 dozen people the wealthy fund??? Your vote matters! Except it really doesn't.


#Cults are built on unverifiable "truths" that only the leaders can teach the followers. #Bitcoin is literally just #VerifiableTruth, the #blockchain, the opposite of a cult.

It only seems like a cult because the #passion Bitcoiners exhibit for this #SoCalled "#investment" is similar to the passion actual #cult members express about their cults.

To an uniformed person, the Bitcoin culture may feel that way; Because, similar to cult members, it's the most important thing in the lives of many #Bitcoiners (and is what we all talk about more than anything else). But ~why~ DO we find it SO important? Quite frankly, it's the only thing that gives many of us a hopeful future as opposed to the dismal future the #FIAT system guarantees.

It's so refreshingly simple and yet so profound in it's #macroeconomic affects on the world.

#War becomes less profitable and less affordable when you can't just print your local currency away to pay for it, and thus can no longer rob the entire population of their life savings and future earnings (through the debasement of wages that results from debasement of currency).

You also can't benefit from war as much anymore because you can't just steal the stored wealth of the people you conquered, because good luck finding the private keys of everyone who you just killed in the city you burned. In the long run, war nearly disappears.

#Housing is no longer treated as an investment and instead returns to it's utility value ONLY, being useful as a home to live in and raise a family in. Housing becomes more affordable, homelessness slowly disappears.

On a #BitcoinStandard the buying power of your wages go up instead of down, putting the average worker on the high ground of the negotiation table at the renewal of their employment contract. Instead of your boss granting YOU a "raise", that is often much less than the rate of debasement, you must instead grant THEM a wage reduction to account for the value of the units the wages are paid in going up. This makes it so over time your wages go up in value even after counting the reductions in measured units, so life gets more affordable instead of less as it does now on a FIAT system.

Instead of rampant #consumerism destroying our planet and producing endless amounts of #cheap #low-quality #garbage that fills up our #oceans / #rivers / #NaturalAreas, it incentivizes more careful and considerate purchases with an eye for #quality. Is this product actually worth my #HardEarned #money? Is it worth the #OpportunityCost of the better products I could buy next year with the same amount that will be worth more? Or is the value I'll receive from owning it over the next year greater than the value my money itself would grow by? Products have to offer real value to people, reducing #waste.

With the current FIAT debt-based economic system everyone giving all their excess money to giant corporate overlords who then use it to "grow" by any means necessary, including buying out all their competitors (and becoming #monopolies and #oligarchs in control of the #government), and not giving a damn about the people and lands they exploit to grow their bottom line. Instead, on a #SoundMoney system like Bitcoin people can save up their earnings and use them how they see fit without #CounterpartyRisk since Bitcoin is a #BearerAsset. This increases the ability of the average person to start successful #SmallBusinesses, and overtime increases #innovation as small businesses take more #risks on #PassionProjects they actually believe provide #RealValue to the world.

These are only a few of the benefits having a hard money that's cryptographically secured will bring, there are many more. This is bigger than the #internet, bigger than the #IndustrialRevolution. Perhaps the single biggest discovery for the progression of the human race in millennia. #Uncorruptible, #indisputable, #verifiable, #truth in #finance.

Bitcoin is humanities launching pad to an #abundant future where everything is #affordable, and where waste, #corruption, and war are minimized.

That's not them talking about it's affects on our electric grid and electricity prices... But in short, even more abundance and affordability. I can't wait to see how it changes the world, at first #GraduallyThenSuddenly.

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Reminder that capital gains are calculated on US dollars and are NOT adjusted for inflation. If you have a stock that goes up 6% and you sell it, but the money supply goes up 7% in the same time frame, then the government dropped the value of your investments overall and is still demanding a cut of the "gains" your investment saw in dollar denominated units. What a farce.


The market doesn't "decide," price controls don't work because the price is a result of voluntary market interaction. It's a thermometer, not the heat itself.

Price controls are analogous to capping the thermometer and letting pressure build up, while claiming that we've controlled the temperature outside.

Saying "the market decides" is like suggesting we are "letting the weather decide the temperature" instead of the weatherman. When the second statement is just nonsense. The weatherman doesn't control the weather, if he is manipulating the thermometer then its just lying about what the real temperature is.

My proposal isn't about "letting the markets decide," because markets are literally the only thing that create prices in the first place. I'm saying we shouldn't have institutions with the express authority to completely monopolize a market and then lie about the price.

Price controls are simply lies, we should just stop lying.


GM! After lots of time spent posting and zapping notes, don't forget to go outside and #touchgrass once in a while.

🌲🌲🌲


Life in America:

You're born. They start poisoning you, robbing you, and lying to you, and then you die. And a small group of people get filthy rich in the process.

It's a Death Economy.

We must end the Death Economy and build a Life Economy.


Countered only by their utter and extreme sadness when they're not allowed to drink colorful cleaning chemicals. 🥲🤣


The complicated aspect about the Social Security system in the United States is that it was falsely marketed.

It's called an "entitlement" because people pay into it and are supposed to get it back like a pension, regardless of whether they are rich or poor when they retire. And so the Baby Boomer generation views any cuts to their social security as a rugpull, basically. It's not insurance or charity; it's an entitlement.

However, although it was marketed as like an entitlement/pension, that's not how the math worked out in practice. And it's because population growth is slowing. It was based on ponzi math, assuming that every generation will be bigger than the one that came before it. But the Baby Boomer generation was huge.

In addition, when Social Security was created, the retirement age was set near the average life expectancy. Many people would not live long enough to collect it, and most would collect it for a handful of years. Only a small minority of outliers would work for like 40 years and then live off social security for like 20+ years. But then over the decades, life expectancy increased by like 15 years, so the default assumption is indeed that someone can work for 40 years and then have 20+ years of retirement, even though the amount they pay into it doesn't really mathematically cover that. It's not designed for that en masse.

And so Baby Boomers had like a 3.5 worker-to-retiree ratio to support in their peak earnings years, while Millennials will have more like a 2.5 worker-to-retiree ratio or less to deal with. Which means they get a worse deal. Many Millennials don't even think they'll get it at all, despite paying into it.

That breaks up the social contract and sets up inter-generational political conflict. "Fourth Turning" stuff.

It's a big reason why "defined benefit" plans are inherently unstable; they rely on being able to predict the future.

And it's also a big reason why, when speaking about deficits, nothing stops this train.


THE MOST EFFECTIVE WAY TO PROMOTE NOSTR IS TO USE IT.


I had in n out the other day and was looking at the sign saying they were 30¢ per cheeseburger in 1948 and $3.98 today.

1948: $35 an oz of Gold which can buy 116 Cheeseburgers.

2024: $2500 an oz of Gold which can buy 632 Cheeseburgers.

Priced in gold cheeseburgers are 82% cheaper!

When you realize FIAT is a meaningless measure, you see that the world is getting better all the time.


Small correction: Rome collapsed less than 2 centuries later.


Ancient Rome also tried to do price controls, they didn't work. This is why teaching history is important to a prosperous society!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_on_Maximum_Prices


As an #American I have #voted in every #election since I turned 18. But I fear I cannot in good #conscience vote for either candidate for #president this year.

It's not just "both sides bad" BS, as they both have horrible policies that I dread either one becoming president.

#Trump is working with others towards #Project25 which essentially is a coup against our #government and will push #America even more towards #fascist #conservatism. Among his other major flaws.

#Kamala #Harris is actually proposing #PriceControls on food. But price controls do not work. The only reason food prices are rising is because the dollar's value is falling, because they keep #printing more of it (endless printing of funds IS a "both sides" problem), these aren't actually record prices and record profits at all it's actually record low values for the dollar we measure prices in. Price controls lead to #FoodShortages, it doesn't magically make the same food cheaper.

I cannot support a candidate who is pushing us towards a more fascist #conservative America, and I cannot support a candidate who is proposing price controls which will just cause food #shortages.

Not familiar with what price controls have done throughout history? The Roman Empire is the biggest example that comes to mind, as they tried to do the same thing around 200 years into the debasement of their coins having removed all but 5% of the silver from them. Rome collapsed less than a century later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_on_Maximum_Prices

This is another piece of evidence showing what the slow breakdown of society looks like. History is repeating itself.

Only this time we have on the sidelines an alternative system being built on Bitcoin that will help us come out the other side much quicker and even hopefully avoid any major collapse between now and then.

Just remember in times like these that at the end of the day society's really big problems are caused by the FIAT system, and it doesn't REALLY matter who is president as they're not really in control.

Whether you vote this November or not, simply by owning Bitcoin you ARE voting every second of every day. Only you're voting with your economic energy for a new system that frees us all from the current one, and there is no stronger vote then that.

Regardless of who wins in November don't worry for the world in the long run, and just stack sats and HODL to get through the bumpy road we may see on the way there.

The Bitcoin economy is coming, and it cannot be stopped because it is better than the current system in everyway and for everyone. The future is bright 🌞, don't believe otherwise.

https://m.primal.net/KCTB.png


Thank you. My bad for sharing the tracked links.


The #news and #algorithms get the most #engagement from sad, scary, and depressing stories. Since more engagement means they make more money, which they have to do to survive in the #FIAT system, that is what they overwhelmingly focus on because #fear pays the bills.

As a result the majority of people feel like the world is getting worse and worse, when it's in not! In fact, it's getting better and better with new inventions and innovations being thought up and worked on all the time.

Here are 2 videos I felt show some progress happening today that can improve our world:

New cheap and easy method to #desalinate salt water into fresh water with far fewer downsides, helping us get to a world where everyone has abundant access to fresh water:
https://youtu.be/2XzmNpacpvk?si=MuJRWC_DwOtUyCQs

Innovation to reduce the time humans need to waste on #LastMile #Delivery, also reducing #traffic and #pollutants in the air we breath, and moving is towards a more #Efficient #SharingEconomy:
https://youtu.be/BgMu35T9P9Y?si=op5VLlXEDbSn37pQ

#Progress is happening, its just hidden in all the noise.

#Abundance
#Hope
#Hodl
#Bitcoin


A global #Bitcoin Standard makes #governments obsolete.


The People of Dubai don't watch the Flintstones but the people of Abu Dhabi doooooo.